Sarah Prideaux was a bookbinder, teacher, writer, and collector
of fine bindings. In addition to An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding and
other books on her craft, she wrote a well-regarded history of aquatint
engraving, which includes a bibliography and notes on artists such
as Thomas Rowlandson. Prideaux used gilt-stamped brown morocco for
this edition of two of Perrault’s Mother Goose Tales. Her cover
design depicts a flowering rose bush tooled in gold; the spine is
titled and decorated with a thorned stem. Signed “S.T.P. 1900” on
the rear turn-in.

Aquatint Engraving; A Chapter in the History of Book Illustration,
by S.T. Prideaux; illustrated by an original Aquatint, two collotype
plates, and numerous half-tone plates,
London, Duckworth, 1909.
Graphic Arts Division. Rowlandson Collection